shaken - Story 131139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Olivia as she sat in the professor's office. The room felt small, the walls closing in. The accusations felt like a physical blow. Her stomach twisted, her hands clammy.

She ran her fingers across the table, her skin crawling. The words, the damning evidence, swam before her. She kept trying to form a coherent explanation, but the words wouldn't come.

She felt like she was drowning.

Emotion: shaken

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.72 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.86

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shaken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shaken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shaken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shaken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.351
`unable`	0.269
`focus`	0.266
`😞`	0.258
`다시`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.769
`la`	-0.579
`a`	-0.375
`happy`	-0.292
`"`	-0.290